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17th October 2017, 11:10 AM
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IIIT Hyderabad City
Can you tell me about the Campus of IIIT (International Institute of Information Technology) located in the city of Hyderabad?
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17th October 2017, 12:23 PM
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Re: IIIT Hyderabad City
The International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT Hyderabad) is an information technology research university based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was the first autonomous private institute of its kind to be established in 1998. It is in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, which is about 20 km from the old city and the central railway station. It is close to Knowledge centre HITEC City, which houses Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, IBM, Facebook, Qualcomm Motorola, Capgemini and Infosys. The Campus 66 acres campus, located on the main Gachibowli road (also called the Old Bombay highway) is well connected by bus and is on the route for the proposed metro rail. It is surrounded by many academic and research institutions like the Hyderabad Central University, Indian School of Business (ISB), TCS-CMC, Indian Immunologicals and Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Development Banking (JNIDB). It is minutes away from the bustling HiTech City Center and Lingampally, which are major shopping areas. Lingampally is also the nearest railway station. Within-campus facilities include a bank extension counter, ATM machine, stationary shop, and laundry services. The academic, administration & research labs are in 4 large 3-floor buildings and the 5-storey academic block will house more classrooms, labs, student workplaces and a bigger library. Governing Council Members Raj Reddy, Turing Award laureate and Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University Vint Cerf, Turing Award laureate and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google R. Chandrashekhar, IAS (Retd) (ex officio), President, NASSCOM, New Delhi C. Srini Raju, Managing Director, Peepul Capital Advisors P Ltd. S. Ramadorai, Vice Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai Pawan Kumar Goenka, President, Automotive Sector, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Narendra Ahuja, Director (International), IIIT Hyderabad, Donald Biggar Willet Professor of Engineering, University of Illinois, USA U. B. Desai, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Rajeev Sangal, Director, IIT, (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi Vikas Raj, (ex officio), IAS, Secretary, Higher Education Department, Government of Telangana R.S. Ranawat Harpreet Singh, (ex officio), IAS, Secretary, ITE & C Department, Government of Telangana Rameshwar Rao, Vice - Chancellor, JNTU, Kukatpally, Hyderabad P. J. Narayanan, Director, IIIT Hyderabad Jayanthi Sivaswamy (ex officio), Dean (Academics), IIIT Hyderabad Vasudeva Varma (ex officio), Dean (Research), IIIT Hyderabad Contact Detail: IIIT Hyderabad Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana 500032 040 6653 1000 |